When Mildred and Richard Loving crossed the racial divide - and state lines - from segregated Virginia to Washington D.C. in order to marry in 1958, little did they know the precedence they would be setting.

It's been over a year since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized marriage for same-sex couples in all 50 states. This was a joyful milestone, but also a reminder that marriage carries financial consequences.

The book is a series of often heartbreaking interviews, as gay novelist Colm Toibin wrote in his forward, "that make clear being gay in Ireland was perhaps a more essential aspect of Irish history and Irish reality than anyone was aware."